a few weeks ago. it's going to go back and forth, so stop the whine, cause trying to burn settlers while they were sleeping is no better.

The Mitnachalim are usually people who love the Land of G.od. To burn the land is not only a lack of responsability, an environemental catastrophy but a sin against God. How come you burn the Land of G.od? Aren t you supposed to preserve it? Thank G.od all the Mitmachalim are not as stupid as these guys!

It's hard to decide...guess it's a draw...as to which Israeli website hates its own people more...Ynet, JPost or Haaretz...you're running neck in neck...if it's something bad about your own people, your quick to believe it. We've enjoyed your retractions from time to time. With friends like you, who needs enemies?

H------ was right.

illegal outposts-settlers- riots-burning- what lawless people- no wonder the world is slowly moving over to the Palestinians side-. There is so many lawless and undisciplined people in Israel it seems, the papers are full of news about riots, demonstrations- time to clean up and get the house in order- starting at home!

these thugs ( the settlers ) are the biggest loss to israel , israel is waisting lots of money and man power to protect these thugs , they dont deserve the protection , they are only pushing the state of israel and its people backwards instead of forwards , they all deserve to be put in jail and throw away the keys until they rot in there , or close the borders ,and all those who want to come back to israel are welcome , and the ones who dont , will be dealt with by the palestinians , its there problem .. WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH WITH THE KAHANAS AND LIBERMANS ....

If you show no mercy you will be shown none.

Proof or reasonable suspision would be nice Yent. This article is simply the writers imagination running wild.

Is the role of contemporary media to "serve its people" or "serve the state", something along these lines, or to report hard raw facts as and when they occur? Your implied answer is obvious but I must remind you we live in the 21st century. This is not Franco's Spain or Mussolini's little police state, but cyberspace where thank Heavens it became impossible to hide a fact. One could also pose another question: If it were Palestinians infiltrating and running amok in Ariel, burning to the ground everything they encounter - what exactly would be the reaction not only in the press but also the Israeli street? Snap out of it dear, the settlers' actions and track record speak louder than words could ever express. They are a bunch of savages destroying another people, citing their own venomous ideology.

so true...

According to talkback #1, the burning was partly a payback for earlier actions of the arabs. But according to the article, the burning was in reaction to the Israeli government destroying houses. So, since the order was probably signed by Barak, why not burn Barak's house? Or, at least, have lots of people demonstrating near his house or office.

After years of being attacked and murdered Israelis are fighting back--now we are evil. I don't hear such a big outcry when Jews are attacked, killed, their homes destroyed or burned. Fact is, the arabs get away with a lot more because our foolish government is trying so hard to be "politically correct" All that will get us is dead.

When and how...did we Jews learn to be this cruel...?

but there are a lot of people who think they have copied their text book word for word

Their is responsible and dignified bahaviour and there is the reverse, not matter who it is coming from. Settlers do not have the right to disrepect Arabs or damage their livilhood, and vis versa. Where are those that - both Arabs and Jews -can live together in peace and respect of the other. This is hateful behaviour of both Jews and Arabs and not right. Those that act this way shouldbe lawfully caught and brought to court and pay compensation of this criminally premediated act. Both Jews and Arabs.

Those weren't just "fields" - the damaged property were several orchards of olive trees - from 1,500 - 2,000 in total! Anyone to do this is an obvious moron and groups that are collectively this destructive, and pointlessly so!, are worthy of prison. That's all.

Shouldnt this article read,Allegedly settlers set fire etc,as there is no proof,why must guilt be presumed. KJL.

Will any jew be arrested and charged? will anyone conpensate the innocent palestinian owner? will justice be server?

When is the IDF&Bibi going to do something about those settler-thugs. If the Israeli gov. & the IDF cannot keep the peace on the West Bank. The UN should step in and the US should cut it's political,aid,to a gov. that cannot control the settler-thugs. As a Jew ,I cannot look the other way.While there is no Justice on the West Bank.The has turned away from Israel.And so has HaShem.

"fighting back." As if the farmer in those fileds had anything to do with anything. Other than farming. Only pigs behave this way.

Dozens of fields are torched everyday in Darfur by the F. Arbs to starve to death the Black Africans and this Phenomenon is in the Mosque plotting more ways to blame Jews with his rich imagination

well said- so what or who was first? The chicken or the egg- how far back are you willing to go? 10 years? 100 years? 1000 years, Moses, Abraham? To burn the land is criminal for people who lived off the land- criminal and stupid!

I've learned to be very skeptical of anything that comes from the pen of Ali Waked.

has been banned under Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions: "It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive". as usual, Israel didn't signed it, neither did the US or Iraq. But, staring Iraq has been forced to pay for setting ablaze Kuwaiti oil wells, since 18 years. So, don't bet on that,

and cutting own trees all is paid with EU and Saudi funds to blame Zionists